ATLANTIC: The Last Great Race of Princes
By Scott Cookman
John Wiley (2002)

This book tells the incredible saga of the 1905 Kaiser’s Cup Transatlantic Race. In the Spring of that year">

ATLANTIC: The Last Great Race of Princes
By Scott Cookman
John Wiley (2002)

This book tells the incredible saga of the 1905 Kaiser’s Cup Transatlantic Race. In the Spring of that year, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany challenged the world to a yacht race. It was a no-holds-barred contest open to all-comers from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to the Lizzard off England's coast. For Wilhelm it was a masterful ploy to demonstrate Teutonic superiority at sea by humiliating his enemies, England and America, and to capture the world spotlight for Germany by the certain victory of his personal yacht, the Hamburg. Ten British and American yachtsmen -- including such millionaires as J.P. Morgan, Thomas Lipton, August Belmont, and the notorious playboy Wilson Marshall -- took up the gauntlet by entering their fabulous yachts in the race. Much to the Kaiser's dismay, Marshall's boat, the Atlantic, edged out the Hamburg in a storm-tossed race, setting a record that stands to this day. This is a dramatic story of an all-out competition between flamboyantly wealthy and eccentric men to put the Kaiser in his place. Scott Cookman is the author of Ice Blink (1999), which has sold 30,000 copies.

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